Crocidura parvipes Osgood 1910

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 245

Crocidura parvipes Osgood 1910

Crocidura parvipes Osgood 1910 , Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 19.

Type Locality: Kenya, "Voi, British East Africa ".

Vernacular Names: Small-footed Shrew.

Synonyms: Crocidura boydi Dollman 1915 ; Crocidura chitauensis Hill and Carter 1937 ; Crocidura cuanzensis Hill and Carter 1937 ; Crocidura katharina Kershaw 1922 ; Crocidura lutrella Heller 1910 ; Crocidura nisa Hollister 1916 .

Distribution: Africa; Guinea and Sudan savanna from Cameroon to S Sudan, Ethiopia ( Hutterer and Yalden, 1990), Kenya, Tanzania, S Dem. Rep. Congo, Zambia to Angola ( Hutterer, 1986 a:31).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: A cranially and externally distinct group of medium-sized savanna shrews. Included in subgenus Afrosorex by Hutterer (1986 a). Considerable size variation, however, may indicate that more than one species is included. Karyotypes from Ethiopia (2n = 50; Bannikova et al., 2001 b) and from Cameroon (2n = 52, FN = 66; Schlitter et al., 1999) are different. Specimens recorded as Crocidura butleri percivali from Machakos, Kenya ( Harrison and Bates, 1986) represent C. parvipes .